Embedded Linux

• Why Linux won the embedded market?
  
  

  One story not told often enough involves Linux’ growing domination of the embedded market.
  
  In this space Linux usually stacks up against older Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS). The decision by Wind River, the largest RTOS vendor, to migrate toward Linux was a turning point.
  
  There has been no turning back. But this is not an open source story. In fact, the embedded Linux business looks a lot like the rest of the embedded market.

  
  
  
• Wind River reports strong quarter
  
  

  Wind River reports its Linux earnings grew 41 percent since last quarter, reaching $8 million, or about nine percent of the company's $87.9 million quarterly revenues. Linux bookings, meanwhile, were up 143 percent year-over-year, and reportedly include deals with two Korean handset manufacturers to make LiMo-compliant Linux phones.

  
  
  
• Tensilica Announces New Open Source Linux Emphasis, Broadens Processor Core Ecosystem with New Linux Partners TimeSys and Embedded Alley [PR]
• [Linux-based] Kindle Continues To Grow With 5,000 More [DRMed] Titles

Mobile Linux

• Google: Android Phones Coming This Year
• Android will be 100% open source, says Google

Asustek and GNU/Linux

• DeviceVM's proprietary/Linux split explained
• Wow! It's PINK!
• Asustek Predicts Eee PC Sales Will Double Next Year

GNU/Linux Misc.

• Channel Insider Names Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2008 Product of the Year
  
  

  Winners exemplify attributes of high importance to the channel including value, support and profit potential. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the leading platform for open source computing, coupling the innovation of open source technology and the stability of a true enterprise-class platform.

  
  
  
• High flyer hangs hat on open source [Red Hat CEO interview]
  
  

  As chief operating officer, Whitehurst was widely tipped to succeed the The concerns proved groundless. The former Boston Consulting Group director is a self-confessed Linux fan, having dabbled in various Linux distributions himself for some time.

  
  
  
• Open source sensor controller device shrinks
• Rise in Attendance at International LinuxTag
• KDE at LinxTag 2008, Day 4 - Live as a Booth Babe
• IVT Announces Launch of Its New BlueSoleil Linux Version for Ultra Mobile PCs

Microsoft Vapourware, Bundling and More Failed Products

• MinWin: Is it or isn’t it part of Windows 7?
• Microsoft seeds HP PCs with Live Search
• Microsoft's Robbie Bach 'thought about killing' Surface
  
  

  "I didn't have a clear line of sight on what the business model was," Bach said. "I was always asking myself whether we could afford to keep it."
  
  Surface did have one important cheerleader: Bill Gates.

  
  
  
• The Bizarre Cathedral - 7 [No, PJ doesn't use Vista]